Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2020
Making a new vaccine is not a race, it is a lottery
17 March 2020 - The COVID-19 novel coronavirus outbreak has challenged global researchers to find a vaccine.
There had always been a plan for a “Disease X situation”. By late last year the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) was funding scientists across the world. It had teams looking at known viruses, trying to tease out their weaknesses and exploit their flaws.
Then, says Melanie Saville, Cepi’s director of vaccine development, in January came the moment for which it had been created.
